Ding ding.

How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave DeFore here with Keith Parrish for your Monday morning weekend

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Also, guys, this week, straight deadline week. So make sure you set a reminder Thursday, 2.30 Eastern. We got a special live trade deadline edition of Nerder, she wrote, with me, Seth, Mo. We got Andrew Schlecht. And we're going to get whoever we can wrangle up as the deals roll in. These guys are going to be super busy that cover the teams, but we're going to try to drag them in because they're the ones at no best, and we've got great beatwriters at the Athletic. So we're going to be hopefully joined by a bunch of guests, but the foursome, we will be breaking down all the deals live, giving you that instant analysis that you literally cannot get anywhere else because we only work at the athletic.

So join us over on YouTube for that.

And speaking of the trade deadline, Keith, trade season's opening salvo was fired on Friday

as the Portland Trailblazers ducked the luxury tax, which is, of course, what we're all rooting for.

Do I yell ding ding right then?

I don't know.

Because it feels like, I'm excited for Portland.

Oh, the fan base, they're going to throw a parade.

They're eating their voodoo donuts.

They're going down to Powell's books.

They're saying, we did it.

We did it once again.

We duck the luxury tax.

That's right.

Hang the banner. And the Clippers basically just said,

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